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  • The Maltese Falcon picture
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    The Maltese Falcon (1941)

    Private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) encounters sundry characters (Mary Astor, Peter Lorre), all...

  • Esther Waters picture
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    Esther Waters

    A woman (Kathleen Ryan) who is seduced and left alone to raise a child gets a chance at happiness...

  • Strange Days picture
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    Strange Days (1995)

    A black-marketeer (Ralph Fiennes) who sells virtual-reality experiences tries to save his ex-flame...

  • Porgy and Bess picture
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    Porgy and Bess (1959)

    Adaptation of the famous play/opera about life in a black neighborhood known as "Catfish Row" in...

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    Paradise (1991)

    Estranged after the death of their own child years earlier, a couple is brought back together during...

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    Ghost (1990)

    A slain Manhattan yuppie (Patrick Swayze) reaches out to his lover (Demi Moore), with a medium...

  • Elephant picture
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    Elephant (2003)

    Two disgruntled teenagers (Alex Frost, Eric Deulen) in Portland, Ore., devise an elaborate plan to...

  • Wag the Dog picture
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    Wag the Dog (1997)

    To divert attention from a presidential scandal, an adviser (Robert De Niro) hires a Hollywood...

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    Angela's Ashes (1999)

    An impoverished family (Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen) decides to return to Ireland from...

  • The Cranes Are Flying picture
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    The Cranes Are Flying (1960)

    A Moscow girl (Tatyana Samoilova) loves a World War II soldier (Alexei Batalov) but marries a...

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    Metro (1997)

    A hostage negotiator (Eddie Murphy) and a SWAT marksman (Michael Rapaport) track a psychotic jewel...

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    The Condemned (2007)

    A death-row inmate (Steve Austin) from a Central American jail is among the prisoners taken to a...

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    My Life (1993)

    A man (Michael Keaton) and his wife (Nicole Kidman) confront his terminal cancer as he videotapes...

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    Cul-de-Sac (1966)

    A fugitive (Lionel Stander) and his partner invade the castle of a recluse (Donald Pleasence) and...

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    Lost Highway (1997)

    Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's (Bill Pullman) murder conviction; a gangster's girlfriend...

  • Shadow of the Vampire picture
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    Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

    Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him...

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    Sliver (1993)

    A book editor (Sharon Stone) has an affair with a voyeur (William Baldwin) in her building, a...

  • Baseketball picture
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    Baseketball (1998)

    Two men (Trey Parker, Matt Stone) invent a successful sport and then try to keep a crass businessman...

  • Grizzly Man picture
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    Grizzly Man (2005)

    Filmmaker Werner Herzog profiles grizzly bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell, who was killed by one of...

  • The Greek Tycoon picture
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    The Greek Tycoon

    A lusty Greek shipping magnate (Anthony Quinn) courts the widow (Jacqueline Bisset) of an...

  • The Black Cat picture
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    The Black Cat (1984)

    Italian goremeister Lucio Fulci applies his characteristic touch to the Edgar Allan Poe tale (of...

  • The Bridge Of San Luis Rey picture
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    The Bridge Of San Luis Rey (2005)

    In 18th-century Peru, a Franciscan monk investigates the collapse of a bridge that killed five...

  • House of Usher picture
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    House of Usher (1960)

    Mad aristocrat Roderick Usher (Vincent Price) thinks his sister (Myrna Fahey) is dead and buries her...

  • Metropolis picture
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    Metropolis (1927)

    An industrialist (Alfred Abel) rules a 21st-century city where the rich play above and slaves toil...

  • Rebecca picture
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    Rebecca (1940)

    A British gentleman's (Laurence Olivier) innocent bride (Joan Fontaine) grapples with intrusive...

  • Romeo and Juliet picture
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    Romeo and Juliet (1936)

    Shakespeare's Renaissance lovers (Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard) tragically defy their feuding...

  • Viva Zapata! picture
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    Viva Zapata! (1952)

    Mexican peasant Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) and his brother (Anthony Quinn) lead an agrarian...

  • White Zombie picture
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    White Zombie (1932)

    A voodoo master (Bela Lugosi) of sugar-mill zombies holds another man's bride (Madge Bellamy) in his...

  • The Assassin picture
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    The Assassin

    British private detective Richard Todd is sent to Venice, there to locate and a reward a wartime...

  • Donkey Punch picture
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    Donkey Punch (2009)

    Young British vacationers come unglued when one of their number is killed while shooting an...